Raise your glass of Belgian beer and have a moment of silence to remember the venerable Michael Jackson, esteemed English journalist, author, and critic of all things related to beer. Michael was a frequent contributer to beer periodicals and to his Beer Hunter website, and he was the author of several successful beer tomes, including…
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Cosimo Review
Food critic Craig LaBan has penned a favorable review of local favorite wine haunt Cosimo in this Sunday’s Philadelphia Inquirer. You can check out the review at the link below. In summary: great entrees, desserts, and of course wine know-how (with a bit inconsistent food service). http://media.philly.com/images/20070819_inq_mgcraig19z-c.JPG
Troubled Clef
There’s an interesting wine invention currently on the market, targeted at the major “wine geeks” out there (I humbly & happily include myself among that target demographic). The item is called the Clef du Vin and retails for about $100 USD – a relatively expensive wine geek toy, no doubt about it. The device is…
Give us free!
Any of you that have ever purchased wine in one state and tried to ship it to another will surely appreciate the efforts of Free The Grapes, a grassroots coalition of wine producers, retailers, and consumers that are fighting the sometimes arcane and always anachronistic state laws that prohibit the direct-to-consumer wine sales. What I’ve…